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By Jack Joseph Smith
a concept
is
Something
that
Never Ends
By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
The poem defines a concept as something without an ending.
Its force comes from the plainness of the definition. By making a concept open-ended, the page treats thought as an ongoing motion rather than a finished object.
Four spare lines define by negation: 'a concept / is / Something / that / Never Ends.' The endless thing is set out as definition, the broken-up lineation refusing its own closure.